Tuesday, January 22, 2013

Sink-Holy Testament

Svart Records2013

Why is it that five of the six pictures that came with this promo featured a guy's butt? Really? That's the best you could come up with? It isn't so much shocking as it is a "and your point is?" moment. It's really not the first thing I want to see when I open an email and it doesn't really inspire me all that much to listen to the album. Being the "professional" that I am though I trudge on naked butt and all. Your backside be damned I say! I will listen to this album!

So I did. I listened to it once and then I listened to it twice. No, I wasn't trying to find out if Sink was naughty or nice! I was simply tying to come up with some kind of reasonable response to Sink's "music". For the record I've heard this name before-somewhere, sometime. Maybe I've covered them before and don't remember how or why, but the sound sticks. Sink are black/sludge/noise/whatever. Only this time they toss in a little who-knew, voodoo in the form of psychedelic...whatever. It's not like it makes it any more mainstream or easier to digest. It's still some weird shit from what is obviously a weird-ass band (pun intended). This is the kind of band your either into or not going to get at all. I can't see anybody suddenly "getting into" Sink as they inhabit their own little universe of weirdness.

"So, in closing, fuck you METAL MARK. Fuck you, fuck Lynch Mob, and fuck your shitty website!”
“I don't know who this METAL MARK is, but I know better than to waste my time checking out anything else written by this asshole”
-Mike